Historic Zoning Commission
Boyd-Harvey House Individual HZ Landmark: Level II
1-H-20-HZ
Staff Recommendation
Staff recommends approval of the work as proposed.
Location Knox County
1321 Harvey Rd. 37922
OwnerAnne Anne White
Applicant Request
Level II. Major repair or replacement of materials or architectural elements
Accessory structure; Deck; Doors; Porch; Shutters; WindowsMain house:
- Installation of wood frame pergola with custom steel braces on rear (north) corner of west elevation. Existing wood deck was removed and new wood deck was reconstructed, and extended to wrap around the rear (north) elevation.
- Replacement of side (west) elevation door with full-light wood door
- Addition of two adjoining nine-light wood-clad windows on left side of west elevation door
- All exterior work on main house occurred on section of porch that was enclosed in the 1990s - no alterations to façade or historic masonry
Carriage house/garage (c.1960):
- Removal and replacement of three non-historic garage doors with three new walnut garage doors. Replacement doors are steel with walnut wood cladding and design features an "x" motif, and each door imitates two doors with centrally located handles
- Removal of asphalt shingle roof and replacement with standing seam metal roof
- Installation of decorative cupola, centrally located on ridgeline
- Replacement of second-story windows: two window openings enlarged slightly and replaced with two, six-over-six, double-hung, wood-clad windows; and one window replaced with three adjoining six-light, wood-clad, casement windows
- Replacement of non-historic door with two-thirds-light wood door
- Installation of shutters. Shutters are operable, match dimensions of the window, and use appropriate hardware
Staff Comments
East Tennessee Vernacular (c.1823, c.1837)Two-story, brick masonry residence with a hipped roof clad in asphalt shingles, a common-bond brick exterior a brick foundation, and one interior brick chimney on each side of the façade. The façade (south) is five bays wide and features six-over-six, double-hung wood windows with flat brick lintels and a centrally located "spirit" door on the second story. A two-story porch is centrally located on the façade, reconstructed in the early 2000s to reflect the original design. The original wood door is flanked by four-light wood sidelights and a transom. A two-story, gable-roof addition extends from the rear of the house, constructed in the 1830s-1840s. A shed-roof porch on the north and west elevations was enclosed in the 1990s. Other notable features of the house are original interior wood finishes and an underground springhouse or root cellar on the north elevation. The property also includes a two-story, three-bay garage (c. 1960) and a barn.
1. A property will be used as it was historically or be given a new use that requires minimal change to its distinctive materials, features, spaces and spatial relationships.
2. The historic character of a property will be retained and preserved. The removal of distinctive materials or alteration of features, spaces and spatial relationships that characterize a property will be avoided.
3. Each property will be recognized as a physical record of its time, place and use. Changes that create a false sense of historical development, such as adding conjectural features or elements from other historic properties, will not be undertaken.
4. Changes to a property that have acquired historic significance in their own right will be retained and preserved.
5. Distinctive materials, features, finishes and construction techniques or examples of craftsmanship that characterize a property will be preserved.
6. Deteriorated historic features will be repaired rather than replaced. Where the severity of deterioration requires replacement of a distinctive feature, the new feature will match the old in design, color, texture and, where possible, materials. Replacement of missing features will be substantiated by documentary and physical evidence.
9. New additions, exterior alterations or related new construction will not destroy historic materials, features and spatial relationships that characterize the property. The new work will be differentiated from the old and will be compatible with the historic materials, features, size, scale and proportion, and massing to protect the integrity of the property and its environment.
10. New additions and adjacent or related new construction will be undertaken in such a manner that, if removed in the future, the essential form and integrity of the historic property and its environment would be unimpaired.